tv denial

I like the Vampire Diaries. There, I said it. If you’re not a fan, you can tut and feel superior, and you have my blessing to do so. I know full well how it can be judged. It has all the tropes belonging to angsty-supernatural fantasy stuff; the teenagers are played by adults, and therefore have perfect skin and hair, and everybody is so thin that they disappear if they turn sideways. Also, it’s pretty easy to keep up with who’s a supernatural character, since everybody who is not human is clearly identifiable as not human by their moody v-necked outfits, all of which stick to a strict black-to-grey colour scheme. Also, everybody seemingly has endless money without actually working, and the schools are these weird places where the bell is always ringing and the classes last about 2 seconds. BUT, it’s also fantastic and magic-y and awesome and I like it.
Anyways, if you are, like me, suffering from a Vampire-Diaries-shaped gap in your life, you might like to fill it with the fact that Kat Graham (Bonnie) is also a singer:

And she has been for a while, but I only just found out because I’m in denial about Vampy D being over and am looking for some more Bonnie since she was such an awesome character. As you can tell, Kat Graham’s a lot different from her character:

And I love how different her music sounds. It’s not the kind of stuff I usually listen to, but as I’ve said, I’m in such denial about the show being over that I’ve been listening to it on repeat and it’s now stuck in my head. I love the kind of old-school thing she’s got going on in the bottom vid, plus, as if she isn’t content with being an actress and singer, she’s also an awesome dancer. Anyways, it’s helping to do the job of a kind of Vampire-Diaries-patch until I find another awesome show!

‘The Smiths’

Scrolling through his collection of The Smiths on his iPhone to choose an alarm song:

Kieran: ‘Girlfriend in a Coma’… that’d be a nice thing to wake up to’.

A Day in the Libary

3 essays due in about a week and I have nothing in my brain. I went to the library with Kieran today, and spent the day sitting next to him tapping industriously away on his laptop, all:

 

Whilst my day went kinda:

12:oopm: Stare at laptop

12:10pm: Stare at wall

12:22pm: Poke Kieran to show him something funny I saw on the internet

12:25pm: Poke Kieran to show him another funny picture

12:28pm: Poke him extra hard because this one really is funny

12:29pm: Sulk about not being able to show Kieran pictures anymore because he’s moved his chair and is “working”

1:30pm: Give myself a break from the stress of doing nothing and go get lunch

1:44pm: Get lost on the way back and interrupt other people’s study instead

1:50pm: Realise how little time I actually have to do the work, panic and stare even more intensely at laptop

1:50pm-2:20pm: panic

2:40pm: Don’t really like English anymore

3:00pm: I just won’t give them my essay. They’ve had plenty of essays from me, they can go without another, why should they get it anyway?

3:20pm: Start having a mini-meltdown at Kieran because ‘I can’t do this essay, I can’t do English, and I can’t do words anymore‘

3:25pm: Kieran frantically tries to calm me down, shooting nervous sideways glances at the people in library who are staring at the blubbering wreck he’s sat next to

3:26pm: meltdown averted, still can’t figure out what this question means, what do you write about contradictions

3:28pm: Convince myself ‘contradiction’ isn’t a word

3:29pm: Wonder if I can stretch my legs all the way under the table and rest them on the opposite chair

3:30pm: Accidentally kick the stranger opposite

3:31pm: Have now irritated everybody in my immediate vicinity, and quite a few others as well

3:50pm: Wonder if I can make a fringe work

3:52pm: Google fringes

4:10: CONTRADICTION IS A WORD

4:12pm: BREAKTHROUGH

4:15:pm: I CAN do this essay!

4:15pm-8pm: Get actual work done, bother nobody, everybody in library sighs with relief.

Kieran’s day:

12:00pm-8pm: Listen to ‘Girls Just Want To Have Fun’ on repeat

 

Day in the Life

Today was a good day! Sunshine, happiness, all that jazz, not even bitter housemates could bring me down:

Good song of today was: Loaded, by Primal Scream. It’s kinda Stone Roses-ish, very Fools Gold, and one of those songs that always makes you feel good, so enjoy! Hope everyone had a good day!

whistling victory

Big day for me- at almost 21 years of age I have finally achieved what most children can do almost almost instantly, and I WHISTLED.  You know how some people can do things that others can’t, like some people can roll their tongues? Well, I couldn’t whistle. At all. At least, not at first.

After about 10 years of practice all I could do was produce a noise like a faraway train whistle, or a kettle about to boil- a quiet, creepy ‘woooooo’ type noise- that kind of spooked everybody in my whistling vicinity. Kieran’s been trying to teach me, mostly to stop my creepy-boiling-whistling ‘wooo’ noise, but also because I have to substitute other noises for whistling as well. For instance, when Kieran looks particularly fancy one day and I want to inform him of this; that would be a great moment for someone who could whistle to whip out a perfect wolf whistle. Instead I have to sort of bleat a ‘wooo WOOO!’ noise at him (which he’s kind enough to take as a compliment anyway). Plus, when you get songs stuck in your head and can’t remember what they are, it’s impossible to ask for help when the only bit you can remember is whistling- for instance, in this song:

there’s a catchy whistling bit:

which was the only part of the song I could remember and it was stuck in my head for weeks. After aggressively trying to hum the same tune in a ‘doo doo, doo doo doo doo doo doo,’ fashion, somebody eventually understood what I meant. But now that I can whistle, the world is full of possibilities.

Except.

I only managed to whistle once. And since then I haven’t even managed to produce the eerie train whistle sound. Nevertheless, there was one whistle, and it was magnificent, the kettle finally boiled and I whistled!

library time

I spent most of today in the library (get me) and if I hadn’t fallen flat on my face up the stairs and then spilt tea all over myself, I might have almost pulled off the studious student look. Anyways, this is a really good studying/writing song: Bloom, Odesza; it’s not distracting since it hasn’t got many words, and it’s relaxingly repetitive and kinda soothing. Enjoy!

going home

I think I finally got to sleep at about 4am last night, so emerging outside today was sort of like :

In the mood of such a grumpy day, here’s a bit of a grumpy post:

It’s Easter soon, which means it’s almost the Easter holidays, which means it’s almost time to go home. Don’t get me wrong, there are good things about home and I love spending the holiday with Kieran & my friends; I just really, really, really don’t want to go back to mum. I know I’ve already done posts about her so I won’t ramble on too much, it’s just that the prospect of going into my house is kind of like entering into the depths of the underworld & living with mum can make anyone feel a bit:

However. I want to stop this whole indulging in a feeling-sorry-for-myself pity spiral, so, for everything that makes me feel a bit:

or:

I’m thinking about one thing I’m thankful for, because there’s a lot to be happy about! Allow me to apologise in advance for the cheesiness.

1. Kieran, who is just the best person ever and helps me out ALL THE TIME/cheers me up/stops me taking things too seriously by popping up with faces like this:

  2) I have to go home, but I also get to go home to a place that looks like this:

which is pretty great.

3) I have to go back to mum, but I also get to go back to this adorable dollop of grumpiness:

who also cheers me up, even if he is a little duvet-hogger. (I realise how corny this is- sorry not sorry, it’s probably only going to get cheesier).

4) Books. Books are pure escapism, especially ones like:

(And my favourite, ‘Little Women’).

And, if you’re interested, here are the top 5 stop-being-pathetic-and-pull-yourself-together songs (that have definitely not come from an old angsty-teen playlist):

1. Uprising, Muse
2. Song 2, Blur
3. Psycho, Muse
4. In The Heat Of The Moment, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds
5. Bring It On Down, Oasis

I promise that this is the last feeling-sorry-for-myself post for a while! Good night everyone!

Today was one of those “erghhhhh” days where nothing goes right and you feel down the whole time. Plus it was raining, which I normally love because it’s an excuse to be unsociable and read and stay INSIDE where everything is great, but today it was just more:

Anyways, I have consolidated the top 5 songs which should just cheer you up no matter what: *clears throat* in no particular order:

1. We Built This City – Starship
2. You Make My Dreams Come True – Hall & Oates
3. Don’t Bring Me Down – ELO
4. Everywhere – Fleetwood Mac
5. And of course, because no music list would be complete without The Beatles:               Good Day Sunshine (which I can’t link because…YouTube) but look how happy they were:

I’m adding another 3, because it turns out 5 wasn’t enough:

1. Hold My Hand – Jess Glynne
2. Waterfall – The Stone Roses
3. Live Forever – Oasis

Hope that cheers people up too!